Spyget: Is Firefox infected with malware?

Spyget > Is Firefox infected with malware?

[I'm Just an Avatar] It turns out that there was an infected computer, but it was the computer of an add-on developer that was working on the Vietnamese Language Pack, and as a result a remnant of the worm code made it into the language pack. While Mozilla scans every add-on that gets submitted to them, this worm was so new that it wasn’t included in the virus definitions yet.

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Spyget > Is Firefox infected with malware?

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